The Agile Manager

MAY 31, 2020

Governments starved for tax receipts will also lean on big tech to collect, analyze and share data with government agencies looking for black market trade and illegal activities. Airlines and large industrial firms are national champions and governments have a history of rescuing their champions. The effects won't be isolated.

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Tech News Gather

JUNE 30, 2023

ESRI (Environmental Systems Research Institute), a global leader in GIS technology, has been at the forefront of developing innovative tools and platforms that enable businesses, governments, and individuals to harness the power of geospatial data for enhanced decision-making.

Technology 52

Technology Technology Development Retail 52

Percona

DECEMBER 27, 2023

It comprises numerous organizations from various sectors, including software, hardware, nonprofit, public, and academic. We want adopters of our technology to be able to deploy their critical open source databases and applications across any public or private cloud environment.

Cloud 77

Cloud Open Source Strategy Best Practices 77

Dotcom-Montior

JUNE 15, 2020

The censorship and monitoring of internet have evolved from anti-virus-like and firewall software to hardware security patches for all devices that uses internet. This setup enables the government to control the flow of information. DNS hijacking is usually applied to redirect unauthorized sites to an government approved website.

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Monitoring Performance Artificial Intelligence Internet 52

The Agile Manager

FEBRUARY 29, 2020

Instead of finding ways to promote AI through government and private sector development and become a leader in AI technology, the EU seems intent on defending itself from AI through regulation. With governments mandating electrification of auto fleets, the threat is not only real, it's got a specific future date on it.

Artificial Intelligence 52

Artificial Intelligence Social Media Automotive Mobile 52

Smashing Magazine

DECEMBER 15, 2021

Mobile phones are rapidly becoming touchscreens and touchscreen phones are increasingly all-touch, with the largest possible display area and fewer and fewer hardware buttons. The hardware matters, but the underlying OS is the same , and pretty much all apps will run on any device of the same age.

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Mobile Design Internet Internet 103

Adrian Cockcroft

MARCH 17, 2020

The opening paragraph above is the same as my previous discussion focused on hardware, software and operational failure modes , but we are now in the middle of a pandemic, so I’m going to adapt the discussion of hazards and failure modes to our current situation.

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Healthcare Government Airlines Systems 52

The Agile Manager

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

The open hardware architecture and open-ended software licensing opened the door for inexpensive IBM PC "clones” that created less expensive, equally (and sometimes more) advanced, and equally (if not superior) quality versions of the same product. IBM created the standard but others executed it just as well and evolved it more aggressively.

Hardware 52

Hardware Social Media Media Strategy 52

Dynatrace

APRIL 21, 2023

In the recent webinar, Good to great: Case studies in excellence on state and local government transformations, Tammy Zbojniewicz, enterprise monitoring and service delivery owner within Michigan’s Department of Technology, Management, and Budget (DTMB), illustrates that meeting both objectives is possible. Register to listen to the webinar.

Government 164

Government Infrastructure Innovation Monitoring 164

O'Reilly

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

Our audience is particularly strong in the software (20% of respondents), computer hardware (4%), and computer security (2%) industries—over 25% of the total. For our purposes, the “computer industry” was divided into four segments: computer hardware, cloud services and hosting, security, and software. Salaries by State.

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Azure Social Media Programming AWS 145

All Things Distributed

SEPTEMBER 4, 2017

The management consultants at McKinsey expect that the global market for AI-based services, software and hardware will grow annually by 15-25% and reach a volume of around USD 130 billion in 2025. Despite all these developments, many people from academia, business and government have a critical view of ML and AI.

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Artificial Intelligence Transportation Education Airlines 149

The Agile Manager

AUGUST 28, 2011

Public sector austerity will reduce government spending on tech , softening demand further. There is also a sea-change in tech from hardware and services to software. Why raise more capital? Next are signs that captive IT spend is slowing amid general economic uncertainty in the US and Europe.

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Social Media Hardware Government Media 40

Dynatrace

MAY 1, 2023

Additionally, ITOA gathers and processes information from applications, services, networks, operating systems, and cloud infrastructure hardware logs in real time. Establish data governance. ITOA automates repetitive cloud operations tasks and streamlines the flow of analytics into decision-making processes.

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Analytics Artificial Intelligence Big Data Open Source 193

Dynatrace

JUNE 29, 2022

They use the same hardware, APIs, tools, and management controls for both the public and private clouds. Amazon Web Services (AWS) Outpost : This offering provides pre-configured hardware and software for customers to run native AWS computing, networking, and services on-premises in a cloud-native manner.

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Infrastructure Cloud Azure AWS 187

The Agile Manager

MARCH 18, 2013

Since the start of the crisis, central banks have pumped a lot of money into financial markets, principally by buying up debt issued by governments and financial assets held by banks. A reduction in business investment is not particularly good news for tech firms selling hardware, software or services to companies.

Engineering 40

Engineering Innovation Government Hardware 40

All Things Distributed

APRIL 5, 2012

However, the shining moment occurred just last month – during peak load there was a hardware failure on the Server powering a RDS Master Database – RDS automatically failed over to the alternate zone within minutes and our customers experience was fully functional shortly thereafter.

Innovation 149

Innovation AWS Education Network 149

Dynatrace

AUGUST 30, 2019

Dynatrace and our local partners helped MAMPU to optimize the digital government experience on several dimensions: Digital Experience: 413% improvement in APDEX, from 0.15 Reducing CPU Utilization to now only consume 15% of initially provisioned hardware. Digital Performance: 99% reduction in Response Time, from 18.2s

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Cache Database Architecture Government 201

High Scalability

OCTOBER 24, 2022

Would you really trust some committee or government agency to draw this line correctly? Each cloud-native evolution is about using the hardware more efficiently. Nitro is a revolutionary combination of purpose-built hardware and software designed to provide performance and security. So why bother innovating?

Cloud 187

Cloud Hardware Infrastructure Innovation 187

Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

IaC, or software intelligence as code , codifies and manages IT infrastructure in software, rather than in hardware. This approach enables teams to apply automation to their testing, delivery, deployment, and governance. Increased adoption of Infrastructure as code (IaC). GitOps also streamlines infrastructure tasks and workflows.

Serverless 270

Serverless Infrastructure Innovation DevOps 270

Scalegrid

MAY 13, 2020

Greenplum Database is an open-source , hardware-agnostic MPP database for analytics, based on PostgreSQL and developed by Pivotal who was later acquired by VMware. In this blog post, we explain what Greenplum is, and break down the Greenplum architecture, advantages, major use cases, and how to get started. What Exactly is Greenplum?

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Big Data Database Artificial Intelligence Open Source 321

The Agile Manager

MARCH 27, 2008

In addition, the rescue team will very often get that which it needs to succeed: co-located facilities, access to business partners, hardware and tools, etc. Failing to do so is a lapse in governance. Ideally, this is an exercise in sourcing top IT talent in a project rescue mission. Doing so successfully balances risk and reward.

Government 40

Government Hardware Technology Technology 40

All Things Distributed

APRIL 4, 2017

The new region will give Nordic-based businesses, government organisations, non-profits, and global companies with customers in the Nordics, the ability to leverage the AWS technology infrastructure from data centers in Sweden. In making the switch to AWS, WOW air has saved between $30,000 and $45,000 on hardware, and software licensing.

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AWS Airlines Latency Games 117

O'Reilly

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

That pricing won’t be sustainable, particularly as hardware shortages drive up the cost of building infrastructure. These models are typically smaller (7 to 14 billion parameters) and easier to fine-tune, and they can run on very limited hardware; many can run on laptops, cell phones, or nanocomputers such as the Raspberry Pi.

Open Source 108

Open Source Artificial Intelligence Google Infrastructure 108

The Morning Paper

DECEMBER 10, 2019

. …software operating on persistent data structures requires "global" pointers that remain valid after a process terminates, while hardware requires that a diverse set of devices all have the same mappings they need for bulk transfers to and from memory, and that they be able to do so for a potentially heterogeneous memory system.

Hardware 52

Hardware Virtualization Operating System Programming 52

Dynatrace

OCTOBER 28, 2020

You can’t keep pace by simply upgrading to the latest hardware and updating to the latest software releases twice a year. Besides the needed horsepower, an easy way to govern access and visibility is critical.

Monitoring 148

Monitoring Systems Infrastructure Cloud 148

Dynatrace

DECEMBER 20, 2019

You can’t keep pace by simply upgrading to the latest hardware and updating to the latest release twice a year. Besides the needed horsepower, an easy way to govern access and visibility is critical.

Infrastructure 134

Infrastructure Government Cloud Monitoring 134

PDC

NOVEMBER 9, 2018

In such scenarios, scalability or scaling is widely used to indicate the ability of hardware and software to deliver greater computational power when the amount of resources is increased. Strong scaling concerns the speedup for a fixed problem size with respect to the number of processors, and is governed by Amdahl’s law.

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Scalability Programming Government Hardware 65

The Agile Manager

JULY 31, 2012

Yet buyers tend to find out whether they do only after the fact, and it is the buyer who is stuck with the outcome: delays due to unforeseen technical work, or higher than expected hardware costs. Most buyers of custom software are underwriting risks which they do not fully appreciate.

Hardware 45

Hardware Software Software Development 45

All Things Distributed

DECEMBER 12, 2018

Starting today, developers, startups, and enterprises—as well as government, education, and non-profit organizations—can use the new AWS Europe (Stockholm) Region. Public sector customers, such as VR (Finnish Rail), the government-owned railway in Finland, rely on AWS to support their move from on-premises infrastructure.

AWS 124

AWS Cloud Games Serverless 124

Dynatrace

APRIL 15, 2024

Government agencies aim to meet their citizens’ needs as efficiently and effectively as possible to ensure maximum impact from every tax dollar invested. As part of this mission, there is a drive to digitize services across all areas of government so citizens can meet their own needs faster and with greater convenience.

Infrastructure 214

Infrastructure Efficiency Government Transportation 214

O'Reilly

OCTOBER 11, 2022

An AI project that doesn’t address data integration and governance (including compliance) is bound to fail, regardless of how good your AI technology might be. Andrew Ng , Christopher Ré , and others have pointed out that in the past decade, we’ve made a lot of progress with algorithms and hardware for running AI.

Games 116

Games Healthcare Processing Retail 116

O'Reilly

JULY 20, 2021

However, the rules governing these experiences are never applied to, say, Netflix. Until we acknowledge that hardware put in a home is different from a cloud service, we will never get it right. Video games already cater to multiple people’s experiences. The assumption is always that one person holds the remote.

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Google Games Technology Technology 121

The Agile Manager

JANUARY 31, 2015

In consequence, able people are not easily attracted to management roles; and so the amateurs view the professionals with often justified and frequently reciprocated contempt. -- John Kay, How a proud corporate history can lead to poor governance A business has many sub-organizations. They may be functional (sales, accounting, etc.)

Best Practices 40

Best Practices Government Hardware Efficiency 40

Tech News Gather

NOVEMBER 5, 2023

It’s a decentralized digital currency, free from government interference, and operates on a technology called blockchain. However, the actual energy consumption varies based on the mining hardware and energy sources used. Click the image below now and get started with crypto trading right away!

Government 52

Government Blockchain Energy Innovation 52

Alex Russell

JULY 14, 2021

Hardware access APIs, notably: Geolocation. Imagine if automakers could only use one government-mandated engine model across all cars and trucks. Basic navigation and window management features to (e.g. window.open() and <a target="_blank"> which are critical to some site monetization features). Web Bluetooth.

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Google Mobile Engineering Internet 121

Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 11, 2022

Organizations working with the UK government to build new digital services, for example, are required to meet standards defined in their Greening Government ICT and Digital Services Strategy. Hardware And E-Waste. Accreditation. Eric’s article also includes a bunch of other great tips for building more sustainably.).

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Strategy Development Energy Website 123

High Scalability

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

Egnyte is a secure Content Collaboration and Data Governance platform, founded in 2007 when Google drive wasn't born and AWS S3 was cost-prohibitive. How are software and hardware upgrades rolled out? Our only option was to roll up our sleeves and build basic cloud file system components such as object store ourselves.

Architecture 52

Architecture Cache Azure Storage 52